You can scratch off Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s “Bardo” from the Cannes predictions lists. The much-anticipated autobiographical film from the director of “The Revenant” and “Birdman” is expected to make a major splash at the Lido as part of this coming September’s Venice Film Festival.
Inarritu has refrained from showing a single frame of his film to festival programmers, for now, but is aiming for a major splash. Not much is known about “Bardo” except that it’s a very personal film for the Mexican writer-director ala what Cuaron did with “Roma.” IMDB has the plot exploring ”the political and social modernity of Mexico.”
Other notable filmmakers expected for the 79th edition of Venice include Luca Guadagnino’s “Bones and All,” Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City,” Jonathan Glazer’s “ The Zone of Interest,” Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon,” Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise,” Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin,” and Paul Schrader’s “The Master Gardener.” Suffice to say, this could be one hell of a Venezia for those attending.